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"I was happy without having sought happiness."
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"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

"Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

"Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"A joyful life, life of contentment."

"Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job."
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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."


"I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls."


"Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book."


"There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way."


"Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others."


"The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness."
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